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Written and Directed by Adam Westbrook http://delve.tv With thanks to: Eva Alisic Tracey Elliot Caroline Vanier Nafees Hamid Guy Gunaratne Chris Schaefer FOOTAGE Getty Images Pond5 VideoHive NASA Featuring footage from “The Train” by Clara Cullen https://vimeo.com/33404470 (Released under a Creative Commons Licence) IMAGES Bundesarchiv Library of Congress Refugee photos by Trocaire on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/trocaire…


Written and Directed by Adam Westbrook
http://delve.tv

With thanks to:
Eva Alisic
Tracey Elliot
Caroline Vanier
Nafees Hamid
Guy Gunaratne
Chris Schaefer

FOOTAGE
Getty Images
Pond5
VideoHive
NASA

Featuring footage from “The Train” by Clara Cullen
https://vimeo.com/33404470
(Released under a Creative Commons Licence)

IMAGES
Bundesarchiv
Library of Congress
Refugee photos by Trocaire on Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/trocaire

MUSIC
AudioJungle
SOURCES:

Global Young Academy Workshop Fresh Eyes on the Refugee Crisis: an Interdisciplinary Approach
http://globalyoungacademy.net/events/interdisciplinary-meeting-on-refugee-crisis-2/
http://globalyoungacademy.net/fresh-eyes-on-the-refugee-crisis/

In 2015 alone, more than 1 million refugees and migrants came ashore, the majority escaping the conflict in Syria:
Official figure for 2015: 1,005,504 – Institute of Migration: http://migration.iom.int/europe/

Europe has a population of 508 million people:
EuroStat, official http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/File:Demographic_balance,_2014_(thousand)_YB15_II.png

Europe’s population increased 0.19%
1,005,504 / 508,000,000 x 100

70 years ago Europe was handling 31 million displaced people
Porter, Anne “Ghosts of Europe” p. 281

Europe’s shrinking birthrates:
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/File:Number_of_live_births,_EU-28,_1961%E2%80%932013_(%C2%B9)_(million)_YB15.png

Europe’s ageing population:
http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/statistics-explained/index.php/File:Median_age_of_population,_EU-28,_2001%E2%80%9314_(%C2%B9)_(years)_YB15.png

Economists are saying immigration is essential for Europe’s labour shortage:
http://www.un.org/esa/population/publications/popdecline/fotakis.pdf
http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/economics/new-report-migration-and-development/
http://www.vice.com/read/we-asked-an-expert-happen-if-eu-opened-borders-to-everyone-584
https://ideas.repec.org/p/mse/cesdoc/13013.html

Immigrant families contribute more each year than they take out:
http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/international-migration-outlook-2013_migr_outlook-2013-en

Immigrants in Denmark raised wages and quality of life for locals:
http://www.economics.cornell.edu/sites/default/files/files/events/peri%20paper.pdf

This isn’t a migrant crisis, it’s something else
http://www.migrantsrights.org.uk/blog/2016/02/refugee-crisis-crisis-policy-rather-refugees

We wouldn’t have any greek influences or science if it weren’t for the Arab World
Lyons, Jonathan “The House of Wisdom: How the Arabs Transformed Western Civilisation”
http://www.amazon.co.uk/House-Wisdom-Transformed-Western-Civilization/dp/1408801213/

Western values, institutions etc are neatly summed up in the UN Declaration of Human Rights (1946) and the European Declaration of Fundamental Rights (2000)
http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/fundamental-rights/charter/index_en.htm

Fukuyama, Francis The End of History (1992)
http://www.amazon.co.uk/End-History-Last-Man/dp/024196024X

Estimates of jihadists leaving Europe
http://uk.businessinsider.com/afp-more-than-6000-european-jihadists-in-syria-eu-official-2015-4

Daesh have formed the largest volunteer fighting force since World War 2
https://aeon.co/essays/why-isis-has-the-potential-to-be-a-world-altering-revolution

Daesh are selling an inspiring message
https://aeon.co/essays/why-isis-has-the-potential-to-be-a-world-altering-revolution

Jihadists are motivated by “sacred values”
http://artisresearch.com/the-devoted-actor-sacred-values-and-willingness-to-fight-preliminary-studies-with-isil-volunteers-and-kurdish-frontline-fighters/

People in the west are not inspired or motivated by western values
http://artisresearch.com/the-devoted-actor-sacred-values-and-willingness-to-fight-preliminary-studies-with-isil-volunteers-and-kurdish-frontline-fighters/

Nothing angers and frustrates Daesh more than seeing Syrians and Iraqis welcomed into the west.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/09/islamic-state-alan-kurdi-photo-magazine-dabiq-syrian-refugees

Subtitles in German and French: Otiko Bagaturia